OutdoorJack doesn’t wait for the holiday season to give back — serving the community is a year-round affair for the local business.
Created by a group of Austinites (Dean Dzurilla, Rhett Hartsfield, Cortney Smith, and Matt Klepac), OutdoorJack is an outdoor company for homeowners that offers a wide spectrum of bundled services. The company’s business model allows them to provide free services to single mothers and older adults.
Dzurilla — an entrepreneur, father, and homeowner in southwest Austin — had the idea to create OutdoorJack during the “icepocalypse” of February 2023, which hit his neighborhood “really hard.”
Around a dozen men in the neighborhood, including Dzurilla, took the clean-up effort into their own hands. The group rented a wood chipper and went door-to-door offering to help their neighbors manage the damage. Dzurilla said they worked for 10 days.
“The rewarding parts came from knowing that we were just in really dire straits, just pulling ourselves up from our bootstraps and helping each other out,” Dzurilla told ATXtoday. “That includes neighbors who couldn’t afford to hire somebody or just really didn’t have physical means to get out there and do the work.”
OutdoorJack was born when Dzurilla met three other men who had done similar clean-ups in their own neighborhoods. They decided to team up and make their efforts professional to continue helping Austinites.
That’s where the Bundle Good, Give Good program comes in. Folks in the community can nominate someone — think single mothers, older neighbors, and disabled veterans — who needs help maintaining their space. OutdoorJack will look to provide them with free or discounted service.
Customers who purchase bundled services — which range from pool care, to power washing, to gutter cleaning — help offset the costs of free services.
“We’ll take care of the work, but we ask the community to help us find someone who can benefit from that work,” Dzurilla said.
Dzurilla said OutdoorJack recently helped a veteran, who was nominated by his daughter, complete three or four difficult projects that could have been dangerous for an older adult to complete on their own.
“Part of it is not just the work that we’re doing, but it’s sitting down to really get to know the person,” Dzurilla said.
Know someone who could benefit from free services, or are you looking for help managing your own property? Reach out to OutdoorJack.
